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Dimitri A. Christakis, MD MPH
Dimitri Christakis MD MPH, is a pediatrician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine. His current research interest is the effect of media usage on young children’s cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social development. More...
Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education, National Science Foundation
From the website: The Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education (ESIE) supports the National Science Foundation’s mission of providing leadership and promoting development of the infrastructure and resources needed to strengthen preK-12 SMT education throughout the United States. More...
Docs for Tots
From the website: The mission of Docs For Tots is to develop, support, and grow a nationwide network of doctors able to respond to the requests of child advocacy organizations and others. More...
Dorothy G. Singer, Ed.D.
Dorothy G. Singer is an expert on early childhood development, television effects on youth, and parent training in imaginative play. More...
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
From the website: ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. More...
Edward Markey
From the website: Edward J. Markey (D., Massachusetts) was instrumental in the passage of the Children’s Television Act of 1990,... More...
Elizabeth Vandewater, Ph.D.
From the website: Dr. Vandewater is the Director of the Center for Research on Interactive Technology, Television and Children (CRITC) at the University of Texas. Dr. Vandewater is a founding member of the NSF funded Children’s Digital Media Centers (CDMC). More...
Ellen Wartella, Ph.D.
Ellen Wartella is a leading scholar of the role of media in children’s development. More...
Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity?
Creating an environment in which U.S. children and youth can grow up healthy should be a high priority for the nation. More...
Food-Related Advertising on Preschool Television:Building Brand Recognition in Young Viewers
This study used content analysis to explore how much and what type of advertising is present in television programming aimed at toddlers and preschool-aged children… More...
Fred Rogers
From the website: In 1966, he developed Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, a children’s television series for station WQED in Pittsburgh. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is the longest-running program on public television. More...
Gary Knell
From the website: Gary Knell is President and Chief Executive Officer of Sesame Workshop. Mr. Knell leads the non-profit educational organization in its mission to create innovative, engaging content that maximizes the educational power of all media to help children reach their highest potential. More...
Gloria Tristani
From the website: Former FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani oversees the Benton Foundation’s work educating policymakers, academics, and activists about communications policy debates and advocating for tangible public interest benefits from the transition to digital broadcasting. More...
Good Start, Grow Smart
From the website: This booklet provides an overview of the Bush Administration’s Good Start, Grow Smart program, including program goals and accomplishments to date. More...
Group Files Complaint Against Makers of Videos for Infants
The complaint with the FTC “is making the assumption that parents don’t know what they’re doing and can’t make an intelligent decision for themselves,” he said. More...
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
From the website: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. More...
Hillary Rodham Clinton
As First Lady, Senator of New York, and Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton has served the public on behalf of children and families. More...
Independent Television Service (ITVS)
From the website: The Independent Television Service (ITVS) brings to local, national and international audiences high-quality, content-rich programs created by a diverse body of independent producers. More...
It’s Child’s Play: Advergaming and the Online Marketing of Food to Children
Webcast of Roundtable discussion accompanying release of report. July 19, 2006. The Kaiser Family Foundation released the first comprehensive analysis of the nature and scope of online food advertising to children… More...
James P. Steyer
From the website: As CEO, he is responsible for the overall leadership of Common Sense Media, the nation’s leading non-partisan organization dedicated to improving the media lives of kids and families More...
Jane Healy, Ph.D.
Dr. Jane Healy is a child development expert, a well-known author of Your Child’s Growing Mind and two-time U.S. Educator of the Year who currently serves as an internationally recognized lecturer and consultant. More...
Jayne James
Jayne W. James, Ed.D. joined the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) as the Executive Director of “Ready To Learn,” a collaborative initiative between CPB and PBS. More...
Jeff McIntyre
From the website: Mr. McIntyre has years of policy experience related to children and the media… More...
Jerome L. Singer, Ph.D.
Jerome L. Singer is a specialist in research on the psychology of imagination and daydreaming. More...
Jim Henson
From the website: Joan Ganz Cooney…asked [Jim Henson] to create a family of characters to populate Sesame Street. More...
Joan Ganz Cooney
Joan Ganz Cooney, co-founder in 1968 of Children’s Television Workshop (renamed, Sesame Workshop June 2000) and originator of the preschool educational series, Sesame Street, served as President and Chief Executive Officer until 1990. She is currently Chairman of the Executive Committee of Sesame Workshop’s Board. More...
Joanne Cantor, Ph.D.
Joanne Cantor, Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an internationally recognized expert on children and the mass media. Her area of expertise is mass media effects, about which she has published more than 90 scholarly articles and chapters. More...
John Boland
John Boland joined PBS in fall of 2006 as the organization’s first Chief Content Officer. In this role, Mr. Boland is responsible for television programming, new media, education and promotion. More...
John Lawson
John Lawson is the president and CEO of the Association of Public Television Stations, which is U.S. public television’s national advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. More...
John P. Murray, Ph.D.
Dr. Murray’s has conducted research on children’s social development for almost 40 years—starting in 1969 as a Research Coordinator for the Surgeon General’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior at the National Institute of Mental Health, in Washington. More...
Joseph Lieberman
Senator Lieberman, along with a bipartisan coalition of senators, crafted the Children and Media Research Advancement (CAMRA) Act, which received unanimous Senate approval in September 2006. More...
Judge Baker Media Center
From the website: Established in 1994, Judge Baker’s Media Center seeks to unite media professionals, mental health practitioners and classroom educators in a single common pursuit: ensuring the health and well-being of children. More...
Kids TV, Now with more Vitamins
Focuses on the efforts of television networks to develop programs aimed at promoting healthy living to children in the U.S. More...
Lesli Rotenberg
Ms. Rotenberg leads PBS KIDS Next Generation Media, a five-year initiative defining the role PBS will play in the changing digital children’s media landscape. More...
Linda Simensky
Linda Simensky is Senior Director of Children’s Programming for PBS. More...
Lois Salisbury
Lois Salisbury joined the Packard Foundation as the director of the Children, Families, and Communities Program in March of 2002. More...
Marcia Grimsley
From the Kaiser Family Foundation Website: Ms. Grimsley [was] responsible for the launch of over 40 titles under the Brainy Baby and Small Fry Productions lines. More...
Marjorie Tharp
Marjorie Tharp is an assistant director for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Department of Federal Affairs in Washington, D.C. More...
Mary Kadera
Mary Kadera, a former high school teacher, joined PBS eight years ago as an education producer and rose through the ranks to director of digital education. More...
Michael Copps
According to the FCC Website:Michael J. Copps was nominated for a second term as a member of the Federal Communications Commission on November 9, 2005, and sworn in January 3, 2006. His term runs until June 30, 2010. More...
Michael Rich, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Rich studies media as a force that powerfully affects child health and health behavior and uses it as a tool for medical research, education, and health care policy. More...
Miriam Calderon
From the Foundation for Child Development website (http://www.child-family.umd.edu): Miriam Calderon is the Manager of the Early Childhood Education Policy Project at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) in Washington, D.C. More...
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
From the website: The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children… More...
National Institute on Media and the Family
From the website: The National Institute on Media and the Family is an independent, nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and nonprofit organization that is based on research, education, and advocacy. More...
National Parent-Teacher Association
Working in cooperation with many national education, health, safety, and child advocacy groups and federal agencies, National PTA collaborates on projects that benefit children and that bring valuable resources to its members. More...
New Tricks Help Old Stay on Air
The article discusses how the television program Blue’s Clues, of Nickelodeon company, maintained its relationship with its viewers despite the changes in its hosts and characters in Great Britain. More...
Norma Pecora, Ph.D.
Dr. Pecora’s research interests focus on issues of gender and children and media, especially the political economy of the children’s television industry. More...
Nutritional Content of Food Advertised During the TV Programs Children Watch Most
The authors sought to code food (nutritional content and food type and eating occasion) and character (cartoon and live action) attributes of food advertisements More...
One Mission Many Screens - A PBS/Markle Foundation Study on Distinctive Roles for Children’s Public
“One Mission, Many Screens” outlines six fundamental principles to guide and govern public service media for children. More...
Parents Television Council
From the website: The Parents Television Council was founded in 1995 to ensure that children are not constantly assaulted by sex, violence and profanity on television and in other media. More...
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